Founded in 1976 by Italian competition shooter Giampiero Pardini, Pardini Armi is a manufacturer of competition shooting air guns and firearms. One of the most popular products of Pardini Armi is the SP rimfire target pistol. Based on this successful design, the [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James Reeves is at IWA 2023 visiting the Sabatti booth. Sabatti is a 300-year-old barrel and firearm manufacturer, known outside of the US for making excellent bolt actions. However, this company is not well-known inside the US. That’s about to change, as [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Above you see a “SkySoldier” with the 2-503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment “The Rock”, as he engages targets with a Beretta ARX160 for weapon familiarization training alongside the Esercito Italiano from the 3rd Alpini Regiment. [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we go to Italy to see what mountain warfare is all about. Above you see a U.S. Army paratrooper assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment as he observes an objective. The paratroopers are working together with the Italian [Read More…]
Italian FABARM (Fabbrica Bresciana Armi) first published pictures of their new SDASS PRO Stage 2 pump action shotguns at the beginning of the year and now they have added them to the Law Enforcement section of their website. This new generation of SDASS (Special Defence [Read More…]
Meravigliosamente! In our Photo Of The Day, we have a wonderful flash from an Italian SCP70 rifle. The soldiers are Italians of the 183rd Airborne Regiment, and they’re using their SCP70 rifles to fire blanks at enemy combatants during a decisive action training [Read More…]
Beretta, the legendary Italian gunmaker, recently imported a large number of surplus Model 84BB .380 ACP pistols. They had served the Guardia di Finanza, Italy’s rough equivalent to a DEA/CBP/IRS agency, for many years. Are these worth the money, or just a neat [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James Reeves is at IWA 2022 with the creator of the Revo Arms IS-9, the lowest bore axis pistol that still uses a conventional Browning short barrel recoil system. This Italian pistol will be a polymer-framed striker-fired handgun that will also use a serialized fire [Read More…]
Sometimes the purpose of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to share the latest news with our readers, sometimes we present important historic events or firearms from a pre-digital age. Today’s photo is from the Beretta vaults. It’s called mod. 70/78 (1978), but we [Read More…]
Italy is famous within the firearms world for its long-standing history of firearms production. Beretta, in particular, is famous for being the oldest active manufacturer of firearms in the world with the company being established back in the 16th century, nearly 500 [Read More…]
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[SHOT 2022] The Mec-Gar Magazines Update Mec-Gar manufactures a sizeable share of magazines on the market today. In fact, you may own a Mec-Gar magazine without even knowing it because they are an OEM supplier to many of the biggest names in the gun industry. Mec-Gar is [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day is TFB’s place where you can unwind and just enjoy interesting pictures for a while. While the rest of this blog is stacked with new releases, information and reviews, you can just enjoy the tranquility and beautiful pictures here. We’ve been doing [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: If you thought the word “Italian” in the title was going to save you from seeing firearms Made in Germany, you were wrong. You’re probably as surprised as me that there are no Beretta ARXs. Here we have the Exercise Goldfinger 2021 [Read More…]
On the 21st of December 2021, the Italian Parliament has finally penned the word “end” on a decades-long national oddity: the ban of the 9×19 mm Luger. This comes as part of a package of amendments aimed to align Italian laws to the European [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: We don’t see the Beretta ARX160 too often, but here it is in the hands of Italian soldiers with the enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia at Camp Adazi, Latvia. They are conducting FIBUA training (Fighting in Built-Up Area). The ARX160 [Read More…]
Cabot Guns, our favorite purveyor of guns we can’t afford, started in 2016 a collaboration with Sandrin Knives of Italy. We saw here a taste of it, on a high-end custom knife matching the level of Cabot Guns 1911 creations. Now we get the chance to order more [Read More…]
Cosmi semi-auto shotguns have always been some of the most fascinating firearms in the shotgun world. With long recoil action, tubular magazine located in the stock, and action capable of pivot opening like a break-action shotgun, the design of Cosmi guns is unusual, to [Read More…]
Above you can see a rather unusual Beretta, used by an Italian sniper as he engages targets during the stress shoot event of the European Best Sniper Team Competition at Grafenwoehr, Germany in July 2019. The European Best Sniper Team Competition is a U.S. Army [Read More…]
Today’s Picture takes us to the Island of Sardinia in Italy, and the Teulada Training Area. We look at a 2nd season soldier of the 1st battalion of the Luftwaffe property protection regiment, as he secures the area with a Heckler & Koch G28. This was part of [Read More…]
In this Picture Of The Day, we are looking at something as odd as U.S. Reserve Soldiers shooting a Swiss B&T APC9 in Italy. This happened as they represented the USA in the Lombardia Commando Raid competition. The Lombardia is a multi-national Italian Army [Read More…]
It’s not everyday that the Italian company BCM Europearms appear here at TFB, but they did already in 2012 with their “Extreme” rifles and SPAR Straight-pull AR-15s. With the appearance of their 40″ and 50″ barrels in .416 Barret and .460 [Read More…]
An Italian company called Futurmec makes an adjustable stock for over & under shotguns. The stock is called FUTUR-K6AM. Generally speaking, this stock has features similar to the Ergosighn and TSK stocks that we have talked about earlier. However, it also has some [Read More…]
Iron Armi is an Italian arms manufacturer specialized in making shotguns. One of their latest products is a semi-automatic magazine fed 410 bore shotgun called Ares MITO 410. This shotgun is made in two configurations for shooting birdshot and slugs. The standard model [Read More…]
Archon Firearms, formerly known as Arsenal Firearms USA, showed off to the public their Type B pistol, also formerly known as the Stryk B pistol, at SHOT Show’s Industry Day at the Range. To avoid a potential trademark dispute which would have delayed the [Read More…]
In March of 1963, a man named Lee Harvey Oswald purchased an M38 Carcano rifle and some quantity of ammunition from Klein’s Sporting Goods in Chicago. Oswald would later use this rifle and ammunition (or so the official narrative goes) to assassinate the [Read More…]
Beretta have unveiled the new successor to their iconic Modello 12 submachine gun. The new 9x19mm PMX was unveiled at the 2017 Paris Milipol expo. The PMX uses a blowback action and fires from closed bolt. It feeds from a 30 round magazine and has a right-side folding [Read More…]
The 2017 IPSC Handgun World Shoot XVIII was the 18th Handgun World Shoot held at the new National Shooting Center in Châteauroux, France during the end of August and start of September. There were 30 stages divided into 5 areas, with each area being named after and [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is a series of pictures I took a few years ago. I spent a few days with this Italian Ferrari-like beauty, made by Armi Dallera Custom or ADC for short. An European AR15 in full race specification for IPSC or other Practical Shooting [Read More…]
According to LeccoNotice.com the historical Italian company Fiocchi Munizion S.p.A. might be up for sale. Fiocchi Ammunition employees 670 people and reached about 150 million Euros in revenues in 2016, a rise from 135 millions in 2015. The positive net finance [Read More…]
An online Italian firearms news website Gunsweek.com has published an article on a digital design concept put out by Italian firm Tecnostudio Engineering that consists of an interesting “Bullpup” submachine gun/PDW. The design incorporates a 15 (appears to [Read More…]
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